France Gift Train to Visit Alabama in Week
A portion of a gift-laden French thank you train, 49 Forty and Eight box cars filled with relics, art, and French industry samples, will pass through Alabama next week. The American Legion groups coordinate Alabama's reception with Gov. Folsom's committee. The train's New York docking is planned for early next week.
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Montgomery
France
Alabama
United States
Washington
District of Columbia
James E. Folsom
Richard O. Morris, Jr
Birmingham
Fred Ayers
Dothan
James N. Bloodworth
Deer
Doma Garrett
Charlie
Angers
Sa Needle
Seackene
Avranche
Verdun
Paris
Sparkman Shooting Leads to Witness Testimony in Decatur
Testimony in a Decatur case details threats and attacks surrounding a shooting involving Anders and Sparkman. Witnesses describe pretrial conflicts, multiple defendants face charges including robbery and assault with intent to murder. Records show 143 witnesses listed as the trial nears.
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Sparkman
Mrs. Sparkman
Anders
Ms. Anders
J. H. Long
Blanche
Arthur Smallwood
Buddy Weaver
Jimmy Moss
Smallwood
Origi Circuit
Vero Anders
Russell Lynne
Decatur
George Cohnson
Phillip Shanks
Melvin Hutson
Noble Russell
Merrill Doss
H. Harrison Hill
Municipal Funding Split Among Cities and Counties
The plan allocates 200000 to each incorporated municipality with profits above 2200008 split between the state general fund and county funds by population. City shares include 25 percent to municipalities by population and 5 percent to towns with liquor stores, amid revenue declines blamed on a crop downturn and expanded incorporated towns sharing the funds.
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General
ABC
Market Declines Then Edges Up In Week Of Steel News
The New York stock market slid through most of the week before a Saturday uptick as demand gathered. About $1 billion in market value vanished, with U S Steel and Bethlehem Steel leading gains after reports of record earnings and a $1 dividend.
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New York
U.S. Steel Corp
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Big Steel
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
Cotton futures firm as parity prices lift demand
New York January 29 cotton futures closed higher amid steady to improving trade. Most buying came from domestic mills with some export cover, while deferred contracts saw demand and minor price fixing.
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New York
Commission House
Modest Gains Spread Across Wheat and Grains On Saturday
Chicago commodities show mixed advances with wheat leading the gains, oats lagging, and corn, rye, and soybeans posting small moves. May wheat at 2.19 7 8, May corn 1.41, May oats 0.70 3 8, May rye 1.56, March soybeans 2.44 1 4, March meal 14.77.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Markets at a Glance New York and Chicago
Stocks steady with selected issues inching ahead and rails advancing in bonds. Cotton firm and higher. wheat firm on short covering. Corn steady with wheat firmness supporting traded levels. Oats mixed and light trade. Hogs and cattle nominally steady across markets in New York and Chicago.
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New York
Chicago
Cattlemen to Meet in Birmingham for Leaders' Talks
The Alabama Cattlemen's Association will hold its annual meeting in Birmingham May 5-6 during the state fair livestock show and rodeo. President W. P. Breen of Eutaw announced the event after the board approved it. Nearly 300 Alabama cattlemen are members. officers include Breen, Moreno, William Howard Smith, O. J. Henley, and Mack Maples.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Cattlemen's Association
Birmingham
W. P. Breen
Eutaw
Breen
Chamber of Commerce
State Fairgrounds
J. E. Moreno
Alabama
Moreno
William Howard Smith
Prattville
Ist
O. J. Henley
Tuscaloosa
Mack Maples
Elxmont
Rail Conference Set to Resume Wage Talks Tuesday
CHICAGO January 29 A conference between railroad representatives and 16 non operating unions adjourned today and planned to resume wage hour talks Tuesday morning. One railroad spokesman offered no comment on gains toward settlement, saying only that progress was unsure.
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Chicago
Neutté
Gress
Crimson Tide Freshmen Rout Auburn In Deby Tigers Rivalry
Alabama freshmen beat Auburn 22 19 at halftime then led the second half from the start. The Tide sealed the victory with a steady opening advantage and kept Auburn from regaining the lead in the rematch.
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Auburn
Ala
Alabama
Crimson Tide
Deby Tigre
Tiders
Amy Mallard tour draws mixed Klan NAACP reactions
In ATLANT A on January 29 figures from opposing sides debate Amy Mallard's lecture tour about her husband’s lynching in Toombs County Georgia. Grand Dragon Samuel Green of the Ku Klux Klan calls Mallard a publicity seeker while Aaron Kravitch of the NAACP criticizes the approach as intermeddling and harmful to Negro advancement. The case centers on the widow claiming robed men killed her husband over a car, with Klan leaders promising protection in Georgia.
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Atlanto
Amy Mallard
Samuel Green
Ku Klux Klan
Toombs County
Savannah
Amy
Aaron Kravitch
National Association For Advancement of Colored People
Kravitch
Klan
South
Goldwasser
Joseph Goldwasser
Cleveland
Ohio
Georgia
Mone Ee
Severa Oars
Robert
New York
Ku Klux Kan
Congress debates wartime controls and filibuster reform
The article outlines moves to extend voluntary wartime allocations and export controls, with a 28 month extension expected. It notes House leaders aiming to bring the bill Wednesday and Senate action on anti filibuster proposals amid civil rights tensions. It also mentions emergency snow funds, Hoover testimony on government streamlining, wage rise talks, and a revised un American activities committee organizing session.
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Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
House
Senate
Congress
Lucas
Hayden
D. Ariz
Senate Rules Committee
Hoover
House Expenditures Committee
Truman
Wood D. G
House un-American Activities Committee
Payroll Stamps To Make Tax Collectors Out of Big Group
President Truman proposes expanding social security to 20 million earners including housewives farmers servants and self employed. A payroll stamp plan would collect taxes via stamps issued at post offices with 1 percent shared by employer and employee and self employed individuals paying through standard tax forms. FSA officials say plan is simple workable and ready for congress decision. debates include whether self employed pay both shares or one and how to apply rates and forms.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
President Truman
J. Donald Kingsley
Federal Security Administrator
FSA
Congress
Kingsley
Truman
Social Security Administration
Industrial Activity In Southeast In 1948 At High Level
Southeast industry maintained a high activity level in 1948 according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta monthly review. Electric power usage and steel mills operated at or above capacity, coal strikes curtailed spring output, and textile mill activity eased on cotton consumption. Southern farmers began 1948 poorly but finished with a larger gross income than in 1947.
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Atlanta
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Monthly Review
Daily Records Marriage Licenses and Deeds Listed
List shows marriage licenses Clyde Glenn to Betty Jean Harper and Russell Allen Green to Lera Faye Bennett. Deeds include Robert S. Brewer to Mary Brewer for $500 and City of Decatur to W A Mills for $68.50, among others, with several church fund transfers and various small sums. The fragmentary data covers multiple couples, entities, and property transactions.
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Clyde Glenn
Holly Pond
Ala
Betty Jean Harper
Third St
Cullman
Russell Allen Green
Vinemont
Lera Faye Bennett
Robert S. Brewer
Mary R. Brewer
Posey
E. H. Francis
D.S. Sivley
J. Walker
Cecil R. Teague
B. D. Cagle
A. D. Terry
Wilma H. Wise
Five Soldiers Die in Yokota Barracks Fire
A Yokota Air Base two story barracks fire in Tokyo area killed five U S soldiers and left ten missing. Staff Sgt Carl R Nilson of Tacoma Washington raised the alarm as flames cut through the dormitory housing about 90 personnel. Five bodies were recovered with identifications pending. Search for the missing continues as officials assess the incident.
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Tokyo
Yokota Air Force Base
Carl R. Nilson
Tacoma
Wash
Greeks pledge relentless war against Greek rebels
The Greek government vowed continued fighting until communist guerrillas disarm, denying reports of any cease fire. Indonesians accuse the Dutch of violating UN orders, with arrests of two Indonesian press officers in Batavia and seizure of records. Britain rejects Soviet charges over bloc dominate blame for world tensions as Europe moves toward unity.
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Greece
United Nations
Batavia
U. N
Britain
Foreign Office
Moscow
London
Parliament of Europe
Aengs
Netherlands
Vishinsky Gravely Ill in Karlsbad Sanatorium
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky is reported gravely ill with nervous system disorder at the Imperial Hotel in Karlsbad Czechoslovakia. He is unable to concentrate or be seen, with staff confirmed as concerned about his condition amid rumors of dissension and diplomatic activity.
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Pragu
Czechoslovakia
Andrei” Vishinsky
Karlsbad
Vishinsky
Imperial
Prague
Communist Party Tv
United Nately
Paris
Richmond
Twin boys born to 95 pound mother at Valley Hospital
A woman weighing 95 pounds gave birth to twin boys weighing a total of 14% pounds at Valley hospital in Van Nuys. The babies are the heaviest twins there. mother Mrs. Loren L. Stevens of Canoga Park, four feet eleven inches, is recovering with husband, a contractor. They have a three year old son Jack. Stevens previously lived in Lansing Michigan and Lexington Tennessee.
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Hollywood
Calif
Valley Hospital
van Nuys
Loren L. Stevens
Canoga Park
Jack
Stevens
Lansing
Mich
Lexington
Biff Glassford Named Nebraska Football Coach
Lincoln Neb January 29 William Biff Glassford 35 was named head football coach at the University of Nebraska He leaves the University of New Hampshire after three seasons and will coach under a one year to year contract paying ten thousand dollars annually He plans to decide on assistants after arrival and said he is very happy to accept the job. Gettysburg casualty figures are cited as over fifty thousand killed wounded or missing after the three day battle.
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Lincoln
Neb
William ‘Biff Glassford
University of Nebraska
University of New Hampshire
Glassford
Nebraska
Nebr
Milk and vitamin advances urged against deficiency diseases
Dr. Tom D. Spies of Birmingham told the Alabama Dairy Products Association convention that milk is a very important food to prevent deficiency diseases. He cited studies in North Central Alabama where children receive milk as a diet supplement and noted vitamins B-12 show promise against sprite and macrocytic anemia.
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Mobile
Ala
Alabama
Tom D. Spies
Birmingham
Spies
Alabama Dairy Products Association
Smuggling Ring Drive Is Begun
Berlin. Brig. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf took charge of a drive to crush a Western Germany smuggling racket. Gen. Lucius D. Clay assigned him to find and plug loopholes letting $200 million in goods cross the border annually.
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Berlin
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Germany
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
Schwarzkopf
New Jersey
Air Force
Diver Delps begins salvage ops in Decatur on river barges
Veteran diver Delps arrived in Decatur with helper Edging and two marine surveyors to pursue salvage work on sunken barges. He described 12 years of Mississippi Missouri and Ohio river diving, with a notable $105000 recovery from a St. Francis river theft and a 215 foot depth in San Francisco.
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Delps
Decatur
Edging
Harry Hughes
Home Insurance Co
Stogie White
Gibbs Insurance Co
Mississippi
Missouri
Ohio
St. Francis River
Morehouse
Elps
San Francisco
Illinois
Mutiny Charge After Captain Thrown Overboard Near Canary Islands
In Caracas a mutiny charge was filed by the Antonio Carballo’s owner accusing crewmen of tossing Captain Jose Hormigo Cabrera and a life raft overboard near the African coast. The sloop, arriving at La Guaira from Tenerife, had been sailing for salt toward Lazarote when the crew allegedly began a trans Atlantic crossing with migrants bound for Venezuela.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Antonio Carballo
la Guaira
Tenerife
Canary Islands
Jose Hormigo Cabrera
Lazarote Island
Canary Group
McGehee Named Conservation Chairman in Mississippi
E B McGehee independent operator named chairman of the conservation committee for the Mississippi Alabama division of the Mid Continent Oil And Gas Association. James P Evans announces the appointment saying the group will work with industry landowners and the state oil and gas board to prevent waste under new conservation measures.
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McGehee
Jackson
Miss
E. B. McGehee
ope_rator
Mississippi-Alabama
Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association
James P. Evans
Oil and Gas Board
Local hospital admits and dismissals in Decatur area
Mrs Bernice Jerrell and her daughter left the Baugh and Wiley clinic. Decatur General hospital admitted Mrs Tom Russell and Mrs Elmo F Mixon while W E Lorance was admitted Saturday. Mrs Elvin Moore was dismissed from Hamil clinic hospital. Chief Whitmire reports four arrests for public drunkenness. Nearby residents and visitors from Birmingham and Nashville stay with local families as Lloyd Lively visits Greensboro NC.
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Bernice Jerrell
Somerville
Baugh and Wiley Clinic
Decatur General Hospital
Tom_Russell
Valdermosa Springs
Elmo F. Mixon
Eighth Avenue E
Elvin Moore
Trinity 1
Hamil Clinic Hospital
Blizzard Disrupts West. Bulldozers, Planes Aid Recovery
Some 135 bulldozers are deployed to blizzard areas with more on the way. Airmen and ranchers deliver food to snowbound Navajo in Winslow north, while Utah livestock receive feed from trucks. Ohio river stands at flood level in Cincinnati, with projections of a two to three foot rise.
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Utah-Nevada- Arizona
Army
Winslow
Ariz
Utah
Salt Lake City
Ohio
Cincinnati
Ohio River
Illinois
Gulf of Mexico
New England
California
Pacific Coast
RAF Veteran Dies From Pistol Wound at Airfield
Stanley O Kennedy, 26 year old RAF veteran who ran Allenport airfield near Montgomery, Alabama, died at a hospital from a .22 caliber pistol wound to the right temple. He was found by his mother at his airport office. Police say no foul play. autopsy confirmed cause.
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Montgomery
Ala
Stanley O. Kennedy
Allenport
Fred Newton
Tuskegee
J. Lewis Miller
Kennedy
Charles R. Lafferty
Miller
M. B. Kirkpatrick
Montgomery County
Clark Strikes At Tulsa Plan
Attorney General Clark ordered federal district attorneys to study mass eviction notices for possible illegal conspiracy. A Tulsa property owners group has urged evictions within 60 days to protest upcoming federal rent control bills. President Truman said owners may not escape scrutiny and housing officials plan court injunctions against landlords who withdraw eviction notices.
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Washington
Clark
Justice Department
Tulsa
Okla
Congress
Truman
Tighe Woods
Justice Oe i
United* States
Progressive 12 Month Teacher Year Proposed in Alabama
Morgan County officials advocate a 12 month teacher year with three months of public service. Teachers would work summers on programs and training, enabling Alabama to begin a six year effort to modernize schools with $93 million for buildings and facilities.
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Leeman
Alabdsha
Morgan County
Alabama
Winter grazing crops face risk from cold snap says Auburn extension
Auburn University extension agent Wan warns that a sharp cold spell could hurt winter grazing crops already rapid growth. Fruit trees in protected valleys may suffer, and overall fruit prospects look poor due to unseasonable weather and possible further cold waves.
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Alabama Extension Service
Auburn
Wagnon
Wan
Sugar diabetes and chiropractic cure claims
A historical article describes diabetes mellitus as an incurable metabolic disease and discusses insulin relief. It alleges chiropractic adjustments repair nerve impingement in the spinal column to restore digestion and sugar assimilation, claiming many cases recover quickly with vitality and recuperative power.
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Mary Hartselle
Grady Hays
Robert Lokey
Latham
Watkins-Perry Grill
The
Brill
B. Whitmire
Dagwood Digs
Wall Street
Baby Tide
Grand Dragon Green
Party
Soviet
Biff Glassford
Deach
Getty
W. E. Lorance
Hartselle
J. B. Whitmire
Mary Williams
Daily Remains
Johnston St
Ed. Carter
Nashville
R. T. Johnson
Norman. Johnson
Charles H. Johnson
Lloyd L. Lively
Greensboro
N. C
Neil Kirk
Grant Street
W. T. Grant
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